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So, you have an awesome WordPress website and you’re investing a lot in optimizing it for search engines. Yet, you’re not sure what strategies work or don’t work for you. This is where a content audit steps in. Yep, I know. This is definitely one of those words that send chills down every marketer’s spine. Even though this an extremely frustrating practice that may make you pull your hair out, it is still an integral part of your SEO strategy. It helps you assess the effectiveness of your tactics, identify and fix problems on time, and make wiser, data-oriented decisions […]

I recently wrote a series of posts on testing React apps and a series on using phpunit for testing WordPress plugins. Those covered testing brand new code and writing it in a way that is testable. One of the tricky things about adopting tests in a legacy code base is that the code is often written in a way that makes testing harder. In this article, I’m going to look at two ways that jQuery is hard to test. First I will show how to use mocks to artificially isolate your code from jQuery itself. Then I will give an […]

It’s said that nothing tastes as good as free, but is it really possible to get a website up and running without spending any money at all? This is a common question – for both beginners and experts to site development. In fact, there are plenty of tools, platforms, and services that offer completely free services. Usually, they’re of a lower-tier, designed to entice you into parting with your cash for upgraded functionality. However, that doesn’t mean they’re not sufficient for many types of projects. In this article, we’ll discuss how far free will get you when it comes to […]